As the world continues to learn more about coronavirus and its spread, it's vital to stay up-to-date on the latest developments. However, it's also important to make sure that the information being distributed is from credible sources. To that end, Between The Lines has compiled, [...]
Meet the Parents Contest Winner: George Westerman
Last month BTL asked readers to submit their most outrageous - but true - "Meet the Parents" stories in celebration of "La Cage aux Folles" coming to Detroit. The winner has been awarded tickets to [...]
Show Biz Demands Much From Christopher Sieber
By Bridgette M. Redman Christopher Sieber isn't about to follow the advice he's gotten from several New York doctors and physical therapists. Their advice: Stop doing what you're doing. It's exhausting. It's bad for health. [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente 'James Franco's Cruising' is a thing that's really happening If you're a film festival nerd or just really into arty-dirty stuff like BUTT Magazine, you probably saw or at least heard [...]
Think ahead, Aquarius!
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Mercury in Libra makes people agreeable, but opposing Uranus and squaring Pluto he triggers a lot of arguments. Good! Raise the hard issues and resolve them. ARIES (March 20 - [...]
Screen Queen
Weekend In an interview with Andrew Haigh on the Criterion Collection release of his second feature film, "Weekend," the director insists he's not keen on having his British indie be classified as just a "gay [...]
A Clever Commentary On The State Of The Union
By John Quinn "The American political landscape is a mess and it's time to whip this country into shape." Do we really need a press release from an improvisational comedy troupe to tell us that? [...]
Busfield And Decker Hold Painfully Funny Vigil
By Bridgette M. Redman You don't need a lot of words to communicate a lot of meaning. At least, you don't if you're Carmen Decker. Timothy Busfield does nearly all the talking in Morris Panych's [...]
Mom Stands Up For Her Son’s Fashion Choice
FERNDALE - Nine-year-old Jack Kennedy got an unexpected lesson in equality last week when he was belittled and ostracized for wearing an earring to school. Fellow students did not dole out the social pressure and [...]
AIDS Walk Detroit meets goal
ROYAL OAK - The streets and sidewalks of downtown [...]
Delegation Hopeful: The End of AIDS Could Be Near
For Dr. Paul Benson, founder of the Be Well Medical Center, two things were different about this year's World AIDS Conference held in Washington. D.C. The first was that though he was able to attend [...]
Kevin Howley
Between Ourselves 1. Why are you running for County Executive? I'm running for County Executive because the media seems to be ignoring the underlying challenges in Oakland County and the current administration refuses to acknowledge [...]
Authors John Corvino And Maggie Gallagher Take A Point/Counterpoint Approach To The Same-Sex Marriage Debate
DETROIT - The Center for the Study of Citizenship invites the public to learn more about the debate by joining John Corvino, professor and chair of the Wayne State University Department of Philosophy, and Maggie [...]
LAHR PAC To Hold Town Hall Meeting
Lansing - Lansing Association for Human Rights (LAHR) and LAHR PAC are co-hosting a town hall meeting and candidate's forum at Trippers in Lansing Sept. 20 for the LGBT and allied community. The meeting will [...]
New LGBT Older Adult Group To Host Seminar On Legal And Financial Issues
Ferndale - Gay Elders of Southeastern Michigan (GESEM), a newly founded organization for LGBT older adults, presents a seminar on legal and financial issues for LGBT seniors, Sept. 27. The seminar, with facilitating attorneys Tim [...]
GMHC Executive Director To Keynote Leaders Of Color At Affirmations
FERNDALE - Dr. Marjorie Hill, executive director of the Gay Men's Health Crisis in New York City, will keynote a multi-media event Oct. 11 at 6 p.m. featuring about a dozen LGBT young leaders of [...]
One Year Out, Report Finds Few Issues With DADT Repeal
by Chuck Colbert In a few short days, backers of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal are throwing a party aboard the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum, located in New York City. It's a pretty [...]
Jerome Corsi
Creep of the Week Have you heard the news about Obama? He's gay. A total homo closeted to the extreme who spent an awful lot of time at Chicago gay clubs and bath houses. Brave [...]
Trolley ride to destiny
Parting Glances Who could imagine in 1865 that 144 years after John Wilks Booth murdered Abraham Lincoln in Ford Theater America's first black president would be attending ceremonies in Lincoln's honor? The gala event on [...]
‘Third Rail’ no more
By Amy Hunter Tip O'Neil famously said, "All politics is local". And it's true - in more than one context, politics is always "local" to every constituency. To some, local is the wallet, to others; [...]
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Cast of West Wing Promotes BTL’s Progressive Voters’ Guide
Cast members of the award-winning television series, The West Wing, have come together to film a web video encouraging registered voters to cast votes in the non-partisan section of the General Election ballot Nov. 6. [...]